US Patent Issued to SambaNova Systems on March 4 for "Scannable memory array and a method for scanning memory" (Texas Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., March 5 -- United States Patent no. 12,243,604, issued on March 4, was assigned to SambaNova Systems Inc. (Palo Alto, Calif.).

"Scannable memory array and a method for scanning memory" was invented by Thomas Ziaja (Austin, Texas) and Paul Jordan (Austin, Texas).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An array of memory cells includes a scan chain with one or more chain segments of storage memory cells. Chain segments are separated by chain buffer memory cells. Memory cells of each chain segment are coupled with a sequence generator that generates a sequence of non-overlapping pulses from a pulse in a scan clock (SCLK) signal. The duration of the sequence equals at most a cycle of the S...